First post here and is simply a repost from my blog.

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Three, not so random, thoughts on entrepreneurship -

First, I read long back, a thought, which remained with me -

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. ---…

"To run longer distances, you need to love and embrace the exhaustion and not resist it." -- Anonymous runner. 

Dear fellow Rodinhooder,

I've been training very hard for the Mumbai half marathon. One day, while training, I started thinking about how entrepreneurship is so similar to running a marathon. I started thinking about "festina lente" or "making haste slowly" and how it could be used as a strategy to cross the finishing line in both. I…

1. Vision: I started my 2006 Asian games campaign as far back as 2002. The vision of a medal in 2006 is what drove me to train from 2002 till 2006. When I started, it was not clear which event I would be participating or the path to get that medal.

The original vision for iLogo was to organize the fragmented & disorganized business of custom T-Shirts globally. This has kept us going through all challenges.

 2. Perseverance &…



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I've been wanting to write about this topic for long, but because of lack of enough information was refraining to do so. Today i saw this amazing video from a TedX where this lady, Sara Lazar,PhD (who is an Associate Researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School) speaks about the impact of meditation on our brain. Through a series of experiments and brain scans, she showcases how meditation can change the size of key regions of…

Pls read this: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/article3007348.ece

Read this budget proposal, its clearly anti angel & venture capital investments. Its clearly targetted at the IT sector too!



First of all there was nothing for Software & Software Companies in this budget & now such a proposal which will kill investments in the IT sector, what's happening? Clearly…

This article was first published in DiscountPandit Blog

This notice has been issued in public interest to make citizens aware of a new disease that is rampant in society today and may soon gain an epidemic status.

Name of the disease:  EOS (Entrepreneurship Obsession Syndrome)

Possible Causes:

The disease is in early stages of research…

Ok, let me ask this, what do you think made Steve Jobs or Apple great? innovative? superb? Many will say their products, their technology, maybe Alok will also say their packaging, right Alok? even their pursuit of wow or their meticulous ways of working! Yes, all this added on to make Apple what it is today but the most important ingredient according to me for Apple or Job's success is the ecosystem in which it grew, matured…

One of the privileges of being a tech entrepreneur is that I get to use Facebook regularly (while claiming that it is merely part of my job).

Of course, there are ways and more ways to use Facebook. 

For the vast majority of users, Facebook is just a fun means of keeping in touch with their friends and whiling away the time. For others, it is a way to reach out to a wide audience and propagate their ideas.

For a few (myself included), Facebook…

Hi folks, just wanted to take a minute of yours to introduce to all budding social entrepreneurs out there, an opportunity that the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad is presenting, called the 3rd ISB iDiya Challenge.

iDiya is ISB’s initiative to support social entrepreneurs in India by providing them a platform to showcase their business plan, inviting ten winners to ISB  for a week long bootcamp and putting them in touch with investors and mentors in order…

I come from a family with a 'professional' background - my father is a retired senior lecturer in mathematics, while my brother is a specialist in internal medicine. My parents always emphasized the importance of education and how educational qualifications will always stay with you, as opposed to money, which can be lost.

However, for some reason I always wanted to be rich, even when I was a small schoolchild. I never really wanted to be educated and in fact, I looked upon…